Games like You're Not Special
Below are 16 hand-picked alternatives to You're Not Special for fans of strategy, adventure, rpg, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in You're Not Special also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
Get personalized picks →About You're Not Special: You're Not Special is a (mostly) non-combat, choices-matter, puzzle-based RPG. There are great forces set to doom the small kingdom in which you live and only the chosen one can stop them. The problem is, you're not the chosen one.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below You're Not Special at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~58% under You're Not Special on Steam right now. Shares RPG with You're Not Special.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~48% under You're Not Special on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with You're Not Special.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~58% under You're Not Special on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with You're Not Special.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~92% under You're Not Special on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with You're Not Special.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~58% under You're Not Special on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with You're Not Special.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
OneShot
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Priced ~50% under You're Not Special on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with You're Not Special.
OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.
Human Fall Flat
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Priced ~50% under You're Not Special on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with You're Not Special.
Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.
Brotato
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Priced ~58% under You're Not Special on Steam right now. Shares RPG with You're Not Special.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with You're Not Special.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
At Home Alone
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with You're Not Special.
This is a recreational healing Mini-plot game explored at home. Players will play and wander around the house from the perspective of a little girl. What will she do when she is alone? What strange stories will happen in the process, and in the process of exploration, you may find some strange secrets....
Six Braves 🕌
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with You're Not Special.
Strategy RPG game , full of childhood memories!
Buy a Croquette!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with You're Not Special.
March 2012, Nagano. The brave and clever high school girl, Chio Aozora, is facing a major crisis: she doesn’t have enough money to buy a croquette! Navigate through the streets and alleys of Nagano, interact with a variety of characters, solve complex puzzles, collect 380 yen, and buy a croquette!
Dragon Spirits : Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with You're Not Special.
While constantly working on a video game without any rest, a college student who's about to graduate quietly slipped into slumber several times. In those lucid dreams, he found himself in the game he was working on, the fantasy world of Dragon Spirits.
Tale's Casino Escape
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with You're Not Special.
Tale's Casino Escape is a real time combat adventure RPG. All the qualities of a good RPG have been combined and applied at Tale's Casino Escape. Come play and feel the adrenaline in your veins!
Super Dungeon Master Ace RPG
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure and RPG with You're Not Special.
Play the top-down RPG-Maker version of Dungeon Master and battle your way through over 30 levels and 20 hours of classic dungeon crawling. ZO KATH RA!
Night Spasm
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Adventure with You're Not Special.
Night Spasm is a meta-narrative open-world adventure game that adapts to your real-life philosophies and worldviews. From the characters you befriend to the quests you take, the game tracks and remembers your every move to create an adventure-... you're NOT a part of??
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Frequently asked about You're Not Special
- How much does You're Not Special cost?
- You're Not Special is listed on Steam at 11.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Who developed You're Not Special?
- You're Not Special was developed by Reky Studios.
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